Keeping tabs on SEJ

New Albany received $6.75 million in federal grant money to rebuild houses in the S. Ellen Jones neighborhood, and now the city is hoping to tap the same resource of funding for an additional $2 million. While New Albany attempts to garner more financial backing for the SEJ project -- dubbed the Midtown Renaissance by Realtors and neighborhood organizers -- some officials are questioning how the first round of grant funding is being spent. Photographs accompany the article